Making the Transition

Irena Kogan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Michael Gebel is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Mannheim. Clemens Noelke is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim.

"We need to know much more about the prospects for young workers in newly post-socialist societies. Engaging a multi-national team of sociologists, this book takes institutional variations across societies seriously. There is simply nothing out there that does what this volume does, nor is there likely to be anytime soon."—David Bills, University of Iowa "This remarkable book is the first comparative study on this issue for this group of countries. It contributes significantly to our understanding of how a variety of institutions shape life chances, and brings to light both country-specific details and the high level of comparability across countries."—Martin Diewald, University of Bielefeld "Making the Transition provides the best recent data on the transition from school to work in Central and Eastern Europe. It includes exemplary discussions of changing institutional conditions and is unified and accessible throughout. A rare achievement!"—Karl Ulrich Mayer, Leibniz Association and Yale University